ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,242, issued on March 31.

"Well treatment compositions and methods of making and using same" was invented by Christopher Cody Nevilles (Sping, Texas), Marcos Antonio Martinez (Spring, Texas) and Danielle Baldwin (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are well treatment compositions and methods. In a specific embodiment, a well treatment compositions includes a surfactant composition that includes: one or more surfactants, where the one or more surfactants includes: sodium alpha olefin sulfonate, cocamidopropyl hydroxysultaine, and mixtures thereof, where the one or more surfactants are present, and where the s...